• Starting a business: particularly easy online
• Helping your company move forward:
  a good network is key

Starting a business: particularly easy online

A profitable cooperation

Setting up a company can be time-consuming. It's very important, therefore, to get your priorities right from the start. Take the time to draw up a business plan and let someone else handle the administration: that's what startups.ch is for.

How to reach your goal:

• You take care of the basics of business success.
• Our partner startups.ch takes on the administrative side of setting up the company.
• We are both available to offer advice.

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The advantages for you

1. You establish your company safely and quickly at www.startups.ch. 
   Our partner provides a guarantee for fast and unbureaucratic processing of your start-up.
2. You benefit from personal advice. 
   PostFinance offers you comprehensive advice on organizing payment transactions, cash management and investments. Startups.ch provides support for all other aspects of starting the company.
3. We'll cover part of the start-up costs. 
   If you decide to open a business account with PostFinance we will pay up to CHF 250 towards the cost of starting your business.
4. You receive the best possible conditions and a flexible range of services for your financial transactions.
   We provide you with financial services that can be adapted to your firm step by step as it grows – easy to use and fairly priced.

Starting a business: support from the initial idea through to market entry

Your partner for starting a business

Under the umbrella of innoBE, the GründerZentrum helps you start up your own business successfully – from the idea and vision through to market entry. Company founders from all sectors in Canton Berne can take advantage of the following services:

• inexpensive infrastructure
• established courses
• good relational network
• other start-up assistance

In addition to these extensive services, company founders also receive 1-3 hours of complementary coaching. 

www.innobe.ch

Helping your company move forward: 
a good network is key

First-hand experience

Over 50,000 companies have been established since 1989 in affiliation with the Institut für Jungunternehmen (IFJ). We offer you a chance to benefit from the considerable experience of the IFJ and to participate in a unique network of young entrepreneurs and successfull SMEs:

• Learn from the experience of others.
• Use the contacts to build up business relationships.

The IFJ network offers plenty of opportunities for an active exchange of know-how and experience.

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The advantages for you

1. Expand your network of regional "Venture Apéros"
   Interesting talks and the opportunity to make contact with other young entrepreneurs over a glass of wine – that's the successful recipe of the "Venture Apéros".
2. Build on your expertise in practice-related workshops.
   "How do I write a convincing business plan?" or "How can I find and retain customers?" are just two examples from the range of topics.
3. You have access to online platforms.
   Win customers and business partners on the "Marketplace" or exchange ideas with over 200 experts in the "Forum".
4. Benefit from proven working tools and software solutions – at greatly reduced prices.
   Read about the "Startup-Praxis" CD ROM and the "Business Navigator" software for creating professional business plans.

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